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Learn new words by talking

Words are taught out loud and then asked about — which is a different thing from being shown a list.

A child who reads a word learns to recognise it. A child who has to say it, and be understood, learns to use it. Every word game here works the same way round: Jubbo says the word and what it means, and then your child has to produce something — the word itself, its spelling, or a sentence containing it.

The ladder is per child and it only moves forward. A word that was missed comes back in a later session, never the same one, so a child is not stuck being asked the same thing until they get it right.

For the youngest children the meaning is given in the language you speak at home, because a three-year-old cannot learn “huge” from a definition in English.